Hello Micha,

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael
Meyer
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 2:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Openvas-plugins] Problems running full LSC audit

>*** Thomas Reinke wrote:
>> Michael Meyer wrote:
>> > 
>> > In my tests i saw, that the first find takes some time while all 
>> > following finds are very fast. But on a VERY large file system, the 
>> > first find may still running during the next find is started and so
on...
>> > 
>> 
>> We used a slightly older version of version_func.inc, but I think from 
>> what we saw, the culprit was descending through nfs mounted file 
>> systems that were of substantial size. It was thrashing nfsd severely.

> There is an option to add '-xdev' to find which should prevent find to
descend into other filesystems. Default of "Descend directories on other
filesystem >(don't add -xdev to find)" is at the moment "yes".

>It it possible that you test again (against the host with that VERY large
filesystem) with the updated version_func.inc and/or with "Descend
directories on >other filesystem (don't add -xdev to find)" set to "no"?

>I'm thinking about changing the default of "Descend directories on..."
>to "no". 

+1 for changing to "no"

Chandra.

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